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Thursday, March 4, 2010

My son checks in from Babylon where he is unhappy with his new job & Mayor Richard Daley claims credit for the MLK & Kennedy assassinations.

My son Matthew has arrived at his duty station, which if I read between the lines well enough he is unhappy with. He also brings my attention to a Chicago Sun-Times story. His email:

Well I have arrived in sunny Babylon. I sure wish I could have seen this place when Alexander came through, but it is nothing but sand storms and filthy rain now. I am working in the Protocol section and it has been pretty calm. Just call me C3PO.

I hope everything is going well. I saw your piece on Lindstedt. I can't wait for his reply. What an absolute waste of pig flesh that puke is. But then if I had a wife that looked like that I would hate the world too.

I would like to direct your attention to the following link:http://www.suntimes.com/news/cityhall/2082064,us-handgun-chicago-ban-030310.article

Read the Mayor's comments. What he is threatening the Supreme Court with as well as other government officials is the very real fear that if citizens are armed, then they (the politicians) will be at risk. I believe this gets to the crux of the matter. We will see how that turns out.

Anyway, take care. Please let me know if you will be available this weekend for a call.

Matt

The reporter says this ole boy is being "sarcastic"? How can you be sure?

Still, Mayor Daley isn’t giving an inch. In fact, he’s ridiculing the high court for affirming the Second Amendment right to bear arms while sitting in a protective bubble.

“Why can’t I go to the Supreme Court and sit there with a gun and listen to the arguments? If a gun is so important to us on the street or someone’s home, why can’t I go to the Supreme Court and sit there with a gun? I’m not gonna shoot anyone. But, I have a right to that gun,” Daley said, his voice dripping with sarcasm.

“Why can’t I go see my congressman who doesn’t believe in gun laws? Why can’t I carry my gun into congressmen’s offices or go to his home and knock on his door and say, ‘Don’t be worried. I have a gun. You want me to have a gun.’ Why is it they want to be protected by all the federal money ... to protect all the federal bureaucrats, but when it comes to us in the city” there’s no protection?

In a 2008 decision that Daley called “frightening,” the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Washington D.C.’s handgun ban on grounds that the Second Amendment establishes the right to own a handgun for personal self-defense.

At issue now is whether the Second Amendment applies to states as well as the federal government.

Even after overturning the D.C. ban, the Supreme Court specifically said governments can continue to ban people from carrying weapons around schools, public buildings and other situations that might endanger the public.

On Wednesday, Daley once again refused to discuss a fallback position. He was too busy arguing the merits — even in the face of almost certain defeat.

“There’s a reality, but also there should be passion and common sense. We assassinated President John F. Kennedy. We assassinated Martin Luther King. And we assassinated Robert F. Kennedy — and we’re proud of that. That’s the answer to problems with a gun. That is not,” Daley said, again ladling on the sarcasm.

“When a child gets shot or killed, that is a failure of society. Adults should stand up and say, guns don’t solve things in homes or streets. If it was, then everyone here would be carrying a gun in our own corporations.”

The D.C. Council subsequently replaced its overturned law with new regulations that require gun owners to receive five hours of safety training, register their firearms every three years and face criminal background checks every six years.

"...guns don’t solve things in homes or streets. If it was, then everyone here would be carrying a gun in our own corporations.” Richard "Little Dick" Daley.Of course, Little Dick's bodyguards carry guns, even in the public buildings of his own (city) corporation.

Give all our best to your boy. And as for that impotent asswipe Daley, like every other asswipe Chicago politico scumbag, he talks a good game when he's surrounded by armed thugs. And as so many have said, if gun laws worked, then Chicago and DC would be the safest places in the country to walk the streets.With crap-for-brains like him coming up out of the ground of Chicago like mushrooms growing out of cowshat, I guess we can't be surprised to see ayholes like the one in the White House, coming from the same meadows.

Mayor Daley is right on with his fear of armed citizens. All he has to do is behave well and make the city run. Become the cleanest least corrupt and incorruptable Mayor in the USA and he'll have nothing to fear from the citizenry.

Forget it Jake, it's Chi-Town.

May I suggest well-concealed body armor and body guards wearing armor as well?

Bad people are still going to have and get guns. Law-abiding people will now be on semi-even terms with the predators.

Money might be saved overall by having people DIY self-protection. Plenty of opportunity for folks who run handgun safety & basics of operation classes.

What Daley forgets if we the people are represented properly you would find us defending them not the othet way around. Daley for what it's worth is a high level retard and I mean no disresepct for the handicaped.

Mayor Daley writes, "Why is it they want to be protected by all the federal money?" You noticed! Congratulations. Now riddle me this Mayor, why is it that the people taking all the money to increase their own power and protection have a conniption fit when those of us from whom they take all that money-and people even poorer than me-stand up and demand the same access to protection? A level playing field is anathema to these people. they want the playing field CLEARED. (Never forget that, folks)

Predictably, Daley laments children being shot. (Do it for the Children!) Hey, I've got a great idea, why not pass a new law that makes it REALLY tough on you if you shoot a child? Because as we all know, more laws means more safety.

You want "failure of society"? How about an an unbroken lineage of Chicago Mayors named Daley who preside over one of the most corrupt cities anywhere on the earth?

What's the matter Mayor, you afraid that you might have to use manners now with your armed serfs?

Uninfringed Second Amendment rights? Now there's some @&^%!!N change you can believe in!

Apparently that chief justice rumor was started by a professor at Georgetown Law, who was teaching a class on informant reliability (or lack of same!). At the beginning of his class, he stated that Roberts was going to retire by the next AM. Approximately a half hour later, as he was reaching the end of the class, he told them that he had just made that up, and pointed out that just because he was what they considered a reliable source didn't mean that everything he said was a fact - they would need to fact check statements, even when made by "reliable" sources.

Apparently, in the intervening half hour, members of the class tweeted and im'd numerous contacts who in turn did the same and voila! a rumor is born. The professor's lesson was vigorously reinforced - whether he intended that or not!

What are the odds that, when TSHTF, cops will put their lives on the line for very long to protect politicians who have consistently worked against them and the people they are sworn to protect? I understand that most cops have a love/hate relationship with politics, and will probably remain loyal as long as they can have unchecked power, but how much blood will they have to lose before they wise up? I'd say not much, because the type of personality that is drawn to the BDSM fantasy world of being a cop is generally not hero material, and the good ones will probably get smart and find work in private security when it starts getting bad.

As I've noted here before, one need only look at Katrina to see what will happen with cops. Some will join the looters, most will (as would most of us) go home to protect their own.

If you claim otherwise, you're probably not being honest with yourself.

In a real "breakdown" situation however, some will sieze the opportunity to "go rogue" - they may go execute some miscreants that they know need a killin', or they may try to set themselves up as some sort of warlord. I fully expect many soldiers from 'da hood to do the same - militarize the gang members and take over some defensible buildings, etc.

One thing I haven't seen anyone really consider is the impact of a roving company or even small battalion-sized bunch of well-trained sociopaths taking anything (and anyONE - got daughters?) they want and killing all who interfere.

Our alphabet agencies have been concerned for some time about the growing number of undercover gang-members joining our military then returning to the gang to teach what they have learned. When there are no "only ones" to battle them, they're going to become OUR problem...

Any time one of these cowardly hypocrites talks about the evils of guns, I ask how soon they'll be willing to get by with no weapons and no bodyguards.

The answer - obviously - is "never."

Ergo, they're hypocrites.

They don't need guns because they have their own small army with guns. Even without the guns, they'd still have their human mountains.

We have neither, if they have their way, and hence will be helpless against *ANYONE* bigger or more numerous than we are.

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

On the efficacy of passive resistance in the face of the collectivist beast. . .

Had the Japanese got as far as India, Gandhi's theories of "passive resistance" would have floated down the Ganges River with his bayoneted, beheaded carcass. -- Mike Vanderboegh.

In the future . . .

When the histories are written, “National Rifle Association” will be cross-referenced with “Judenrat.” -- Mike Vanderboegh to Sebastian at "Snowflakes in Hell"

"Smash the bloody mirror."

If you find yourself through the looking glass, where the verities of the world you knew and loved no longer apply, there is only one thing to do. Knock the Red Queen on her ass, turn around, and smash the bloody mirror. -- Mike Vanderboegh

From Kurt Hoffman over at Armed and Safe.

"I believe that being despised by the despicable is as good as being admired by the admirable."

From long experience myself, I can only say, "You betcha."

"Only cowards dare cringe."

The fears of man are many. He fears the shadow of death and the closed doors of the future. He is afraid for his friends and for his sons and of the specter of tomorrow. All his life's journey he walks in the lonely corridors of his controlled fears, if he is a man. For only fools will strut, and only cowards dare cringe. -- James Warner Bellah, "Spanish Man's Grave" in Reveille, Curtis Publishing, 1947.

"We fight an enemy that never sleeps."

"As our enemies work bit by bit to deconstruct, we must work bit by bit to REconstruct. Be mindful where we should be. Set goals. We fight an enemy that never sleeps. We must learn to sleep less." -- Mike H. at What McAuliffe Said

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.